The Unknown Woman of the Sun

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In French, she's called the Incanudilacen. People have pulled hair and skin particles from death masks to use as DNA evidence in other cases. Lorenzi's great niece told Anne Gell-Salio that there's no way to know where the original mask of the unknown woman is. molders would often switch original molds and copies, using them interchangeably to make new casts.

When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make the doll’s face look like one specific woman – a woman who they thought had drowned. People call her l’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Woman of the Seine.

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